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Kansas beaches

8 beaches, with the parking, the walk to the water and the tide for each one.

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What matters today?
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Good places to start

Bloomington Beach
Lawrence
Walk to water175 yd
Parking160 ft away
Tanglewood Beach
Lacygne
Walk to water130 ft
Lake Olathe Beach
Olathe
Walk to water40 ft
Parking80 ft away
El Dorado State Park Beach
Kansas
Walk to waterYou're on it
Parking320 ft away
El Dorado Swim Beach
Kansas
Walk to water70 ft
Parking150 yd away
Swim Beach
Kansas
Walk to water80 ft
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Lists for a particular day

Shortest walk

Park almost on the sand

Kansas · the listing sits on the shoreline
Kansas · 30 ft to the water
Olathe · 40 ft to the water
Kansas · 70 ft to the water
Kansas · 80 ft to the water
Lacygne · 130 ft to the water
Kansas · 170 ft to the water
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Every beach

All 8 beaches, by how many people rate them

BeachTownWalk to waterParkingFeeRestrooms
Bloomington BeachLawrence175 yd160 ft–yes
Tanglewood BeachLacygne130 ft–––
Lake Olathe BeachOlathe40 ft80 ft–yes
El Dorado State Park Beachon the sand320 ft–yes
Swim Beach80 ft–––
Swim Beach170 ft230 ft––
Swimming Beach30 ft230 ft–yes
El Dorado Swim Beach70 ft150 yd–yes

Walk and parking distances are measured on OpenStreetMap. Fee and restrooms come from counted visitor reviews and mapped facilities. A dash means we have no evidence either way, not that the answer is no.

Questions

Common questions

Which Kansas beach has the shortest walk from the car?
El Dorado State Park Beach in Kansas has the listing right on the shoreline. We measure the straight line from the listed location to the mapped waterline for every beach, so the table above ranks them all.
Do you have to pay to park at Kansas beaches?
Mostly yes. Of the 8 beaches here, 0 have visitors reporting a parking or entry fee and 0 report free parking. Reported fees run from $20 to $35 a day in season, and several beaches drop the fee after 5pm or outside the summer.
Which beaches have restrooms?
5 of the 8 beaches have restrooms mapped on site or reported by visitors. Seasonal closures are common: several National Seashore beaches close their facilities outside the summer.
How current is this?
Tide, waves, wind and water temperature are fetched live in your browser from NOAA and Open-Meteo. Parking and facility positions come from OpenStreetMap; imagery from USGS NAIP. Facts counted from visitor reviews carry the year range they were written in.
How we know

Where this comes from

Place details from the public Google business listing. Beach shape, parking and facility positions from OpenStreetMap (ODbL). Aerial imagery is public-domain USGS NAIP. Tide comes from NOAA, and weather and water from Open-Meteo. Map drawings are redrawn from that aerial imagery by an image model. Markers, distances and every fact on this page come from OpenStreetMap and counted reviews, never from a drawing. Review text is never republished.